Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Tony winner Christian Borle will star as the mysterious Willie Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, set to o…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:50PMMonday, May 9, 2016
The night before the Tony Awards were announced, Phillipa Soo was feeling a bit anxious and unable to fall asleep. She planned to get up at the crack of dawn. But as the ‘HamiltonR…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:14PMActors Equity Associations, the stage performers’ union, announced the winners of its Richard Seff and Clarence Derwent Awards for the 2015-16 season on May 6. The Richard Seff Award i…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:42PMFinding Neverland, the musical about the origins of Peter Pan, will fly away from Broadway on August 21.The show will have played 33 previews and 565 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatr…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 09:27AMFriday, May 6, 2016
The Humans and Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed have been chosen as the Best Play and Musical of the season by the New York Drama Critics Ci…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:01PMThe original Elphaba and Glinda from the tour de force that is Wicked, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel come together again for the Out of Oz series to sing “For Good.” The bea…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:46PMI’m originally from North Carolina. When I first came to New York I thought it was bigger than I could ever explore. But that’s just not true. New York is what you make it. My ex…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:58PMThursday, May 5, 2016
I have a bunch of favorite songs. One that comes to mind is “The Nearness of You.” I love the lyric: “It’s not the pale moon that excites me, that thrills and deligh…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:14PMI feel like I’m flying when I’m singing. It’s the most freedom I’ve ever felt. Singing allows you to transcend your body, transcend time, transcend everything. ItR…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:02PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
With her role as “Wife Number One,” Saycon Sengbloh is ready for her close-up. Starring in the critically acclaimed Danai Gurira play Eclipsed has presented the role of a lifetim…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:30PM“When I get asked a question like, ‘What is your favorite song?,’ immediately what comes to mind is if I had ten kids and somebody, like in Sophie’s Choice, held a gu…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:56PMThe top dancers and choreographers both on and Off-Broadway will vie for the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. Hamilton, On Your Feet!, Shuffle Along, Cagney and She Loves Me were among the sh…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:50PMThe first casualty of the Tony nominations has fallen. Disaster!, which only received one Tony nod, will play its final performance on May 8. The wild parody of 1970s thriller films like Ear…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:09PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Hamilton, the smash-hit cultural phenomenon blending rap/hip-hop music with American history, continued its domination of the Broadway season by raking in 16 Tony Award nominations, the most…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 04:48PMGuards at the Taj, Rajiv Joseph’s two-character play set in 17th-century India presented by the Atlantic Theatre Company last year, and the Roundabout Theater Company’s revival o…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:56PMLupita Nyong’o (Eclipsed), John Krasinski (Dry Powder) and Ben Whishaw (The Crucible) are among the 2016 Theater World Award winners for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut perf…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:54PMI first experienced the movie and then the book, The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I thought it was such wonderful storytelling that we don’t often get to see. I was attached to it fr…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 01:02PMThe Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, and, as everyone expected, Hamilton made history with a record-setting 16 nominations.The awards will be host…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 08:47AMMonday, May 2, 2016
Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, a reimagined version of the 1921 hit, opened April 28 at the Music Box Theatre. The stellar cast is headed…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:18PMLong Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s towering Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, opened April 27 at the American Airlines Theater as part of the Roundabout Theater Co…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:27PMThursday, April 28, 2016
She Loves Me, the hit revival of the 1963 romantic musical from the Roundabout Theatre Company, received the most nominations for the 2016 Drama Desk Awards with nine including Outstanding R…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 05:05PMTuck Everlasting, the new musical based on the fantasy novel by Natalie Babbitt about a young girl who befriends an immortal family, opened April 26 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The show featu…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:50PMShuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, a reimagined version of the 1921 hit, opens tonight on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. The stellar ca…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:08PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
The Off-Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents and marketing professionals, has announced the nominees for its sixth annual O…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 12:28PMWaitress, the new musical based on the 2007 film, opened on Broadway, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on April 24. The show features a score by five-time Grammy nominee Sara Bareilles and a b…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:32AMLong Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill’s towering Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, opens tonight at the American Airlines Theater as part of the Roundabout Theater Comp…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:29AMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Much to the relief of Hamilton fans across the country, the “ten-dollar founding father without a father” is staying on the musically recognized American currency. Earlier in 201…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 06:12PMFully Committed, the solo play by Becky Mode about New York’s cutthroat restaurant scene, is at the Lyceum Theater for a limited run through July 24. Five-time Emmy nominee Jesse Tyler…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 02:25PMTuck Everlasting, the new musical based on the fantasy novel by Natalie Babbitt about a young girl who befriends an immortal family, opens tonight at the Broadhurst Theatre. The show …
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 11:51AMMonday, April 25, 2016
Fully Committed, the solo play by Becky Mode about New York’s cutthroat restaurant scene, opens tonight on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater for a limited run through July 24. Jesse Tyler…
SOURCE: NewYork.com at 03:40PMAmerican Psycho, the musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel about a yuppie serial killer, opened on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on April 21. Benjamin Wal…
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